I’ve read/heard that our sub-conscious is a place where doubts, fears and limitations exist from our experiences and past. These doubts/fears drive the way we are, and even to the point where deep-seated fears affect the Law of Attraction. If we have a deep limited thought that we don’t deserve _____, we’ll never get it until we erase the sub-conscious belief (through whatever means).
I’ve also read/heard that the sub-conscious is God-conscious…our natural state.
So my question is…how can the sub-conscious be the place of fears and limits AND the unlimited power of creation of God at the same time?

I was raised by an insensitive, unloving cruel, selfish man.  Intentionally cruel and enjoyed it.

He has caused me much heart ache by not giving me the love and care that I so much deserved.  I am sick and fatigued.

He is old and sick and has had a good life and now I find myself feeling compassion for him,  He still treats me disrespectfully, but I still help him because my brother who he has given everything to(because he is a boy ,he is cruel and selfish also) does not help at all, he just takes money from my dad.
I do not get or ask for anything.  My question to you is that I feel that I should do this but I do not know why because I do not enjoy being with him because he is still not nice.  I just feel sorry for him.
 Am I doing the right thing, or am I harming myself by being around this negative person who makes me feel inferior and not loved, but used?
 I trust your spiritual intuition and I hope that you will answer this question for me.
 Will this help, or damage my spiritual growth?

When one begins the path to Enlightenment, I’ve read it can be from either what we would call a painful or a wonderful experience.  My enlightenment began when I fell in love with a man whom I left my husband for.  I thought he was the love of my life.  After leaving my marriage of 13 years and hurting my beautiful 9 year old son, I found out he was nothing I desired.  I was soooooo incredibly blind and he had lied to me horrifically.  Alone one night after the midst of just beginning to find out his truth, I fell to my knees and asked God to forgive me for whatever I had done to deserve this. Then the most amazing thing happened, I heard a deep voice inside me say “stand up my child for you are loved”.  I realized then that God was nothing but love.  I grew up in a religious family and had been taught God punishes us.  I began to read your books and many others.  I have forgiven this man as I see him now as a child who is hurting himself deeply.  Though, he has been the greatest Teacher in my life and doesn’t even know this.  I love and care about him still as a friend.  I feel as if he is the reason I am now reaching out to find myself.  It has been almost 4 years since I left my marriage.  My now 12 year old son has begun to ask why I left his father.  I feel this deep pain inside of me often when I think about my son and how he must feel.  I’m scared to tell him I left his father for another man.  Should I tell him the truth?  I know he would still love me but I don’t know if he would understand and I don’t want to hurt him even more.  I am only beginning my path but why did it have to begin with so much pain and hurt others? Your insight would be much appreciated.

Lately, out of my insecurities, I have been toying with the idea of doing plastic surgery for my nose.  Yet, at the same time, I am aware that  I want to develop my spiritual life (I have been practicing yoga for 11 years and I’ve been teaching it for the past three years) in more depth.  I am starting to meditate again.  However, being so self-conscious physically (especially as I age) and being drawn to the spiritual life are creating a lot of chaos in my mind as I don’t know what the drive for either is, although obviously the drive to meditate seems to make more sense to me.  Can you let me know what the yoga/ayurveda/ and your perspective is about the subject of changing one’s physical appearance?
Thank you so much for your help.

I happened to watch your debate on if Satan exists. I found it very interesting. Although I am a devoted Christian. I wanted to understand your stance of this. I think that u were trying to let people realize that when we are conditioned to believe in negativity as far as Satan, that it gives people the excuse to blame for the negativity instead of looking at ourselves and believing instead of taking responsibility for our own spirituality instead of trying to just believing that we can find spirituality in just one’s belief. If this is not correct I would really like to know your true meaning of this. I thought your debate was so interesting and I would really like to understand.